The majority of computer users use a combination of a computer keyboard and computer mouse for text input. Some make use of lesser popular and specialized text input methods that include touchscreens, motion capturing devices, tablets or joysticks. The software program Dasher adds another very interesting albeit specialized data input method that can be used [...]
Visual Thesaurus VocabGrabber
VocabGrabber is an interesting online service provided by Visual Thesaurus. The online tool can be used to analyze text that can consist of up to 200000 characters. All that needs to be done is to copy and paste text into the form on the Visual Thesaurus website to receive an in depth analysis of the [...]
Full Screen Writer Write Monkey
Write Monkey is a text editor that offers several unique features to stand out of the masses of other writers and editors. The first and probably most noticeable feature is the full screen mode which displays a black screen without any text editing buttons and toolbars except for the main menu bar. The light green [...]
Use Notepad++ Without Sessions
The Notepad replacement Notepad++ is storing sessions by default. This means that a user opening a supported document in Notepad++ is also seeing the documents of the last sessions in the tabs on top. This feature can be handy if a user works with the same documents most of the time; It can on the [...]
Write Colorful Texts With Web Gradient
Web Gradient is a simple tool that makes it possible to create great looking colorful texts easily. The last sentence has been created with a tool called Web Gradient which takes any text input and turns it into a multi-colored experience. This is done by creating the text and selecting the colors in the software [...]
Notepad++ 5.0 beta
Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer. It combines the speed and low resource usage of Notepad with an advanced functionality that includes syntax highlighting, plugins and multi-views.
Today the first beta version of Notepad++ 5.0 was released [...]
Find and Replace text across multiple documents
A colleague of mine build a static html website a few years ago. He slowly but steadily created hundreds of html pages which was great for him because he could simply use one already finished file as a template for a new one. It did however pose a problem as well. Updating information across all files was very time consuming. Think of extending the copyright notice each year, adding advertisement to the websites or changing the navigation.
